Biography

Bine Bryndorf is the Director of Music and Organist at Roskilde Cathedral, located 40 kilometers west of Copenhagen. She is also a Professor of Organ at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at Malmö Musikhögskola in Southern Sweden. After her studies in Vienna, she spent four years teaching as an assistant to Michael Radulescu. In 1994, she returned to Denmark, where she served as a Professor and later as Head of Department at the Royal Danish Academy of Music for 24 years. In 2017, she chose to become a full-time musician and took on the role of Castle Organist at the renowned 1610 Esaias Compenius Organ at Frederiksborg Castle. In 2020, she was appointed Director of Music at Roskilde Cathedral, a World Heritage site that houses the largest historical organ in Denmark, the 1654 Raphaëlis Organ.

Bryndorf has a highly acclaimed international career as a soloist and is in great demand as a teacher for masterclasses and as a juror at organ competitions. In 2019, she became an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London and was awarded the Grand Frobenius Prize by the Danish organ-building firm Frobenius. She has recorded organ works by Buxtehude, Scheidemann, Bruhns, Bach, as well as Danish composers Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) and Niels la Cour (born 1944).